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BS you didn't suffer too badly for it with all the minor titles stinsons won so can't have been too bad...

Maybe give Ahoghill a bit of credit in all this too - SS was an amalgamated team after all.  we'll soon find out if Portglenone can stand on their own two feet or not 

Aye Ahoghill big contributers to some really good SS teams. Remeber playing against Kellys, Hardys, Graffins etc all big big players.

where the graffins not cargin men?

thought Belfast saffrons would have kicked on a bit more at underage

Another senior title for Cargin and Damien Cassidy. Went exactly as I expected...not much at all between two evenly matched teams. Creggan had 13 wides versus Cargins 5, so that's not a good stat from Creggans point of view.

Reinforces my view that Antrim football is wide open between four or five clubs....as I said at the start of the year! Nothing has changed in that regard.

Well done Cargin. Some great players today. Mick the best player on the pitch, Justy solid, Jamie Gribben well done, Marty Kane made a noticeable difference, Ciaran Bradley superb and the TS express keeps rolling on. The Mc Namee cup is in Toome, enjoy, we will be there to support you against Gweedore, but if you're going to have any kind of crack at Ulster you'll need to be better than today.

Bannside I have to correct your stat Kickams hit 12 wides to Cargins 7 - a lot of wides down to poor shot selection and not judging the conditions, Creggan played with fear of losing and cargin were very happy just to keep ball. Creggan are a good footballing team with pace in abundance -  with a big pitch like ahoghills I felt they could have opened cargin up, very naïve but I have no doubt about it therday will come - I would also expect KM to be at the helm next year again.  As you can tell I am very disappointed by kickams performance think there is a lot more football in them.

Any updates on the manager merry-go-round?

First things first, congrats to CB, I think, while a close game, Cargin deserved to win it. The Creggan lads are disappointed. Think there was a combination of factors that hurt the performance, most notably was Cargin. They did a great job disrupting Creggans running game with a great defensive performance. Think at the end of the day, Creggan were missing an old head up front (Mark Dougan's Absence in terms of free taking and winning frees was a big loss). Very young team, 4 of the forwards were U20, and should learn from this experience)

Well done Cargin and enjoy the well earned celebrations

Why did Dougan not play a part he seemed to be going well in the warm up?

Another senior title for Cargin and Damien Cassidy. Went exactly as I expected...not much at all between two evenly matched teams. Creggan had 13 wides versus Cargins 5, so that's not a good stat from Creggans point of view.

Reinforces my view that Antrim football is wide open between four or five clubs....as I said at the start of the year! Nothing has changed in that regard.

Well done Cargin. Some great players today. Mick the best player on the pitch, Justy solid, Jamie Gribben well done, Marty Kane made a noticeable difference, Ciaran Bradley superb and the TS express keeps rolling on. The Mc Namee cup is in Toome, enjoy, we will be there to support you against Gweedore, but if you're going to have any kind of crack at Ulster you'll need to be better than today.

Bannside I have to correct your stat Kickams hit 12 wides to Cargins 7 - a lot of wides down to poor shot selection and not judging the conditions, Creggan played with fear of losing and cargin were very happy just to keep ball. Creggan are a good footballing team with pace in abundance -  with a big pitch like ahoghills I felt they could have opened cargin up, very naïve but I have no doubt about it therday will come - I would also expect KM to be at the helm next year again.  As you can tell I am very disappointed by kickams performance think there is a lot more football in them.

Any updates on the manager merry-go-round?

yes thought peter was very impressive should have had 3/4 frees in the first half after a few rash tackles from Kearny

I've heard the u21 championship is due to kick off this weekend a lot of teams still involved in other competitions - pity there wasn't a few more months in the year !!

It is an arguement that has been gone over and over on here but there is still no solution.

We shorterned the county season and what difference really has it had on the club season? Zero we are still playing our most important matches in October and into November.

Realistically what games of any value were played in the summer months?

U21 is a prime example and it has been pushed about for nearly all of its existence, but now it is running straight into College football at the back end of the year. So players will have been slogging with their teams since preseason this year right through to the end of the year.

i agree I think the u21 hurling should be played off in 4 weeks in june , and the u21 football mid july to mid august however I'm sure people will find problems with that.

I've heard the u21 championship is due to kick off this weekend a lot of teams still involved in other competitions - pity there wasn't a few more months in the year !!

If they take this anywhere else other than Ahoghill they need a good kick in the stones
10/15 minutes up the road for everyone
IFC in corrigan will make sense

Agreed Portglenone might also be in with a shout great set up.

I see that the Derry SFC final is scheduled for the same day - that could affect attendance.

So to round of this weekends action.  Dunloy lost because of the weather and loughgiels tactics and the dispute over the dugout and the weather and not being able to hit nice clean ball into there nice wee forwards and the weather and our tactics and it's not there fault that the world domination is on hold for another year.  Here's how i seen it, JC got our game plan bang on, Dunloy lost at there own game, they battered and slapped last year against Cdall in the final and got NMM sent of for hitting back, won a championship. fair play. They battered and slapped yesterday and our lads stayed disciplined and won the game being a bit longer in the tooth.  to start and cry over how the opposition played is simply being a bad looser, end of story. move on

Exactly I was at the Dunloy Slaughtneil match last year and heard the excuses ranging from slaughtneil were too physical we'll be stronger next year. Match shouldn't have been played in owenbeg (probably best surface in Ulster for hurling) slaughtneil have no hurlers they've just big strong men, complete slabbers and probably the worst team to come out of Antrim in the past 4/5 years. I said to my wife on leaving that game that Dunloy wouldn't get out of Antrim this year as they assume they've a god given right that teams will lie down against them. Glad to see them beat and look forward to a slaughtneil v Antrim club Ulster final.

Deluded.

Some change from last year DR. If you had the team that finished starting the game was yours.

hard to know how to call the nights game. Id say we will have a full compliment available now the hurling is over. Im quietly confident we can get a result this evening but under no illusions of how tight it will be.

please god no more rain or wind. lol got enough of that on sunday.

Will the management start the hurlers who had a match on Sunday probably had a nights drinking and haven't played much football all year - over the committed footballers who played the majority of the league apart from the 4/5 games the hurlers were made available ? Depending on the team Dunloy put out will depend on the outcome of the game IMO.

boyle sport - they have dunloy at 6/4. I don't think dunloy will be able to break down Gort can only see the hurling result affecting them negatively - However I could be wrong!!

Cant blame a the ref for anything let it go was a good hard hitting game of hurling in which the shamrocks stood up, could argue over the red cards but dunloy easily could have had a number of penalties near the end. The shamrocks are hungry if they do win Antrim it will be interesting to see how they do against SN. St johns v cdall has the makings of another classic would be great for st johns to make the breakthrough to the final been knocking on the door for a wile now

Cushendall most improved team? How exactly?

they had the beating of a full strength Dunloy team with some of their main players missing

Any odds out for the games this weekend?

Boyle sports nothing to appealing apart from swatragh at 7/2, Mfelt are 5/1 against SN.